Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsThe Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
On face value, The Borrower is a story about a librarian, a small boy and the primacy of the written word; on second thought it is a political satire... Read more »| 25 Aug 2011 -
Book ReviewsGood As Dead by Mark Billingham
Not to be confused with Mark Billingham’s last book, From The Dead, this latest offering is a solid police procedural. In fact, there’s r... Read more »| 25 Aug 2011 -
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Hot Off The Comics Press: Graphic Novels
Every week, the comic book presses roll out a throng of new titles for the discerning comicdom consumer to add to their collection. Amongst the gathering fre... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
Book ReviewsHot Off The Comics Press: Picks Of The Week 18 August
Headlines have been rife with controversy thanks to Marvel’s new spin on their Ultimate Spider-Man, as they announced the new wall-crawler will be... Read more »| 18 Aug 2011 -
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Hot Off The Comics Press: Picks Of The Week 10 August
With the summer and the Festival raging on, let’s take a look at what’s filling up the Comics shelf space this week. Let’s start with Mark... Read more »| 10 Aug 2011 -
Book ReviewsThe Incomplete Tim Key, by Tim Key
Tim Key’s quirky, humorous, poems were very enjoyable. In fact, I had to share them. I shared them with my cat, Charlie. Charlie bloody loved them! He ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011
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Tretower to Clyro:Essays by Karl Miller
This is a genial collection of essays by an esteemed critic, including a foreword by one of his friends, Andrew O’Hagan, and pieces on his frie... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
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The Immaculate Heart by Andrew Raymond Drennan
This book, his second published work, is something of a leap forward for Andrew Raymond Drennan, with his prose in particular significantly more confident th... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off the Comics Press
The live-action Amazing Spider-Man is now very much stepping into the limelight, thanks mainly to that excellent web-tingling trailer that débuted at ... Read more »| 27 Jul 2011 -
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A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
John Burnside's eighth novel is both an evolution of his previous work and an entirely self-contained fable. It is set in the Norwegian Arctic Circle... Read more »| 27 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off The Comics Press: Picks of the Week 20 July
So what do we have in the world of comic books this week? It seems that DC is having bouts of nostalgia with some tales of yesteryear. Focusing on unpublishe... Read more »| 20 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off the Comics Press: Picks of the Week 13 July
Summer events haven't always been the staple of a comic book calendar, but Marvel's critically (and commercially) excelling Civil War, which ran in 2006, set... Read more »| 13 Jul 2011 -
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Aaron and Ahmed by Jay Cantor (writer) and James Romberger (artist)
Aaron and Ahmed is subtitled ‘A Love Story’, but it’s not that simple. It’s the story of Aaron, who becomes a soldier in Guantanamo B... Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off The Comics Press: Picks of The Week 6 July
Here we are in the height of summer, the sun is shining (sometimes) and the big comic book events are in full flow. Whether you love them or loath them, the ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off the Comics Press: Picks of the week 29 June
With Spider-Man hogging the headlines at the moment, it is perhaps fitting that he should be included in this week's pull list. And although The Amazing Spid... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011